Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-06
Gladstone Asks that an In
Testigation be Held ofthe
Times-Dillon Case.
The Treasury Department
Seeking to Destroy q
System Imposition.
End Of a Brakemen's Strike
on the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
HlgA Water in Malne-Sue 6Am Fo,-
lowed By Her 0wner-ScayeAgeFs "a
astrlks-K Killed 9 Negro Barber.
RePsrs Of = CoroReF's Jury.
New Rates en- the rae.


I'm the FemmeaA
Lnapos. May 5.-Ia the Housa Of
Commons this afternoon the eonsidera-
ton Of the question Of breach OF pFivi-
legs IN the 7fssss Dillon case vas re-
snmed. No member rising 10 speak on
the motion Of Lewis that the conduct Of
the Tfnaes vas breach Of privilege and
that the House take natice OF il, SpeakeF
Peel put bef Fe the House the amend
msnt Of Sir Edward Clarke. soiieitoF
General. thai the House deoline 20 treat
the fImss' publication ~ q breach ef
privilege. The Pasnsliites at onee
challenged for q division. This re-
suited Ia vote OF 297 in favor Of the
amendment 10 sls against ID. Ths
amendment thus became the substan
tive motion. Bradlaaeh then rssamed
the debate.
Gladstone, Who on rising vas loudly
cheered, moved an amendment that q
commission be appointed 10 inquire into
the charge ef wilful fAlsehoed made
against Dillon in the Times on Monday,
He said he did not inteRd 10 sne9est
that the inquiry 90 beysnd the article
be referred 10. He objscsed to Lard
Randolph Oharchill calling him she
leader OF party OF aapaI alton. De
perfectly understood Why Lord Ran
dolph did not cali IL the party Of Home
Rule. It vas beoanse Of the future be-
fore Lord Randolph, in which Home
Rale plans might be q figure convent
ems TO propose. Cheers Turning 20
the question Of privilege, be said that
ID was nnsortanate that the Government
proposed the present step against
the Irish members, while iBfilcfing upon
she Irish people by means Of apeRmanent
Coercion bill she brand Of perpstual
dishonor. Why take the case into a
court Of lawg Was IL certain that
Dillon would get a verdict, whatever
might be bis proof IN the case, when
Parliament declared the charges against
member no breach Of pFivilegeg
Nearly thirty years ago be sent as q
commissioner TO the ionisn IslSnds.
The Times then said the I0aian assem-
bly, was committing treason; that the
commissioner vas aiding and aoettng
the assembly. He thought these charges
required redress. He took the best
advice on this sOhjsci, but sll bis
sdvis, 70 said be could Hot depend upon
securing fair verdict. The Irish mem
beFs would be in still more uafavOT
able position 10 jury trial. Il was no
wonder that they preferred the tribunal
of the House. The House was per
tecily competent tribunal. Indeed, the
only competent enc. The RESIDENTS
we're ell on the side of appointing
COMMITTEES Such vas the case OF Butt.
in 1854, when it was held that accust-
fious, such as that the members we're
hungry for places to whic1 SeFe 90
taehed trizss and pensions, deserved
inquiry. After citing number of other
precedents, in all Of which charges less
grave than th &c brought against Dillon,
he challenged the Government to esiab
iish q single precedent where prosscu-
ifon vas ordered without tue Honee hay
ing previously condemned the aet 0Pan
which prosecution wa based. He ap
pealed to ihe Government 20 alter their
determination which ethsFwise might
lead 20 q crisis Of most serious and
momentoas importance 90 ihe Irlsb
members, who had been maiiened 20 an
enormous extent. He asked fvr tbe
particular course, which the majority
refused, forgetting that they we're aciinR
against a min 5rity representing ma
tion. Pafnallite cheers The Gov
eminent could yet, on the grounds OF
reason, pfndenes and prseedeHs, aeess &
this ameRdment, showing TO the ceun'
srv that they had determined at least 10
give the Irish members full iostice, even
indulaent iastice, seeinR that their
honor and aharactef we're 81 STAKE
Cheers
Breaking 10 n system 81 EmpesttIoa.
wAsuIxar n, May 8. Assistant Sec
rstsry Maynard has instructed the Gus
tome effioers 20 zee that domestic cigars
exported for the puFp0se OF being re-
iunp rted are noa admitted - entry
a. der the provisions OF ) efi0n $50,
bat il is required to turn them ov 10
OolIeetoFs Of Internal Rsveuue fer suah
precedent a. may be fsand expsdient
under the Internal revenae laws. This
action is based on Information that Q
system exists Of sending cigars manu-
factured tn San Francisco 70 Victoria.
B. O., and then returning them 10 San
Francisco under the provisions OF Sec
sfon Zoo, revised statutes. They are
then Stamped With Castsm slamps bear
ing The words, Domestic cigars feim-
ported" A good market Ia found foF
theas goods in Sc. Louis, where they are
usually sold a. imported cigars. Tbs
DurchsssFs see tha Imported stamps bat
fail 10 natice the inscription thereon.
strike Adjusted.
SAu FaGNcEsuo. May 5.--A. n. Toune.
General Manager Of the Southern Pa
cieo Railroad Company, announces
that tbs strike Of the bFakeDen on the
via4lia division Of the Southern Pacific
Railroad has been satisfactorily ad-
justsd.
The conditions on which the strike
waa setsIed are thai 800 miles shall con
stitufe a mauth's work. Wages remain
the aame ss bsf0rs. The strikers de-
/ maud vas tAas 300 miles shoald oonsti-
tnes = raonth's work. Toe frtiRht
/ blockade has been raised and treftic vas